 What elegance and grandeur wide expand, The pride of Turkey and of Persia land ? Soft quilts on quilts, on carpets carpets spread, And couches stretch'd around in seemly band ; And endless pillows rise to prop the head ; So that each spacious room was...  The Edinburgh Monthly Review - Page 3271820Full view - About this book
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 pages
...Turkey and of Persia land ? Soft quilts on quilts, on carpets carpets spread, And couches stretcli'd around in seemly band, And endless pillows rise to...prop the head ; So that each spacious room was one full-swelling bed. And everywhere huge cover'd tables stood, With wines high-flavor'd and rich viands... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...Turkey and of Persia land ? Soft quilts on quilts, on carpets carpets spread, And couches stretched around in seemly band ; And endless pillows rise to prop the head ; So that each spacious room vras one full-swelling bed. (1) Drowsy-head— or drowsy-hed, as Spenser spells It — drowsiness.... | |
 | James Thomson - Gift books - 1861 - 480 pages
...Turkey and of Persia land ? Soft quilts on quilts, on carpets carpets spread, And couches stretch'd around in seemly band; And endless pillows rise to prop the head; So that each spacious room was one full-swelling bed; xxxiv. And everywhere huge cover'd tables stood, With wines high-fiavour'd and rich... | |
 | James Thomson - 1862 - 272 pages
...Turkey and of Persia laud i Soft guilts on quilts, on carpets carpets spread, And couches stretch'd around in seemly band, And endless pillows rise to prop the head, [bed. So that each spacious room was one full-swelling On the green bosom of this earth are found,... | |
 | George Anthony Denison - 1865 - 264 pages
...Castle of Indolence, where " Soft quilts on quilts, on carpets carpets spread, And couches stretch around in seemly band, And endless pillows rise to...that each spacious room was one full swelling bed." It needs but a very slight increase of size in these velvet pillows to convert the tables on which... | |
 | Emmeline Lott - Egypt - 1865 - 370 pages
...Turkey and of Persia land ! Soft quilts on quilts, on carpet carpets spread, And couches stretched around in seemly band ; And endless pillows rise to...that each spacious room was one full swelling bed." Leaving which we entered another apartment. This was covered with a crimson and black carpet, the walls... | |
 | James Thomson - Poets, English - 1868 - 416 pages
...Turkey and of Persia land ? Soft quilts on quilts, on carpets carpets spread, And couches stretch'd around in seemly band ; And endless pillows rise to...prop the head ; So that each spacious room was one full-swelling bed. xxxiv. And every where huge cover'd tables stood, With wines high-flavour'd and... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1869 - 644 pages
...Turkey and of Persia's land ; Soft quilts on quilts, on carpets carpets spread. And couches Ktrcteh'd around in seemly band, And endless pillows rise to prop the head. So lhat each spacious room was one full swelling bed ? ' 178 NOTICES OF THE I8I°tioned arc neither more... | |
 | Hunt - Double-crostics - 1871 - 136 pages
...that ye did ever see.' 4. ' Soft quilts on quilts, on carpets, carpets spread, And couches stretched around in seemly band ; And endless pillows rise to...that each spacious room was one full swelling bed.' 132 She heard the scissors that fair lock divide, And whilst my heart with rapture painted big She... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Fiction - 1871 - 344 pages
...Turkey and of Persia's land ? Soft quilts on quilts ; on carpets, carpets spread ; And couches stretched around in seemly band ; And endless pillows rise to...that each spacious room was one full swelling bed." It was not without some considerable profit that Mrs. Follingsbee had read Balzac and Dumas, and had... | |
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